Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Resolved, without dissent, to set up a chapel in the Capitol. Explained Oklahoma's Democrat Mike Monroney, the project's sponsor, "We've got Turkish baths, private dining rooms and automatic-typewriting rooms, but no place to pray...
...this week, almost all of the Republicans (and some Democrats) on Capitol Hill wanted the McCarthy V. Army hearings to go away. Both old and new political hands realized that the investigation had turned into an pettifogging, time-wasting spectacle which was hurting the Republican Party, and lowering the prestige of Congress. Across the U.S., thousands of televiewers agreed with Vice President Nixon's view that the proceedings had reached the ridiculous stage. But there was little prospect that the hearings would ¹ improve or 2) end soon...
...said the reporter. Eisenhower shook his head angrily. He never heard of him, he said. He never heard of him. Then the President was asked what he thought, as a former general, of all the excitement at the Capitol. Ike said nothing for a long moment. His shoulders hunched in anger, his face turned a deeper red, and he looked like a man who was counting up to ten. When he did speak, his voice was husky with controlled emotion. The reporters would pardon him, he said, if he declined to talk about something that he didn't think...
Frankie finally switched to a different firm (Capitol). Sales of his records began to pick up. His movie success helped. Audiences decided that he was not just a mannered crooner, but a mature...
...Little Thrigs (Al "Jazzbo" Collins; Capitol). The ultimate in pop-bent nursery stories. Narrator Collins scrambles the familiar words into loony spoonerisms, either causes total listener collapse or total disinterest...